Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

Our answer is, no. This fighting task is far from completed.However, the leaders of the CPSU frequently spread theview that colonialism has disappeared or is disappearing fromthe present-day world. They emphasize that “there are fiftymillion people on earth still groaning under colonial rule”, 1that the remnants of colonialism are to be found only in suchplaces as Portuguese Angola and Mozambique in Africa, andthat the abolition of colonial rule has already entered the “finalphase”. 2What are the facts?Consider, first, the situation in Asia and Africa. There awhole group of countries have declared their independence.But many of these countries have not completely shaken offimperialist and colonial control and enslavement and remainobjects of imperialist plunder and aggression as well as arenasof contention between the old and new colonialists. In some,the old colonialists have changed into neo-colonialists andretain their colonial rule through their trained agents. Inothers, the wolf has left by the front door, but the tiger hasentered through the back door, the old colonialism being replacedby the new, more powerful and more dangerous U.S.colonialism. The peoples of Asia and Africa are seriouslymenaced by the tentacles of neo-colonialism, represented byU.S. imperialism.Next, listen to the voice of the people of Latin America.The Second Havana Declaration says, “Latin America todayis under a more ferocious imperialism, more powerfuland ruthless than the Spanish colonial empire.”It adds:Since the end of the Second World War, . . . North Americaninvestments exceed 10 billion dollars. Latin America1Speech of Mirzo Tursun-Zade, Leader of the Soviet Delegation, atthe Third Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Conference, February 5, 1963.2N. S. Khrushchov, “Report on the Programme of the CPSU”, deliveredat the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, October 1961.189